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- Title: A Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making and the relevance of stability test
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Philip A. Ebert
- Description: In this paper, I explore a Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making. I motivate this general outlook by introducing a well-known cognitive bi...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.12.pdf
- Keywords: bayesian reasoning, avalanche decision-making, avalanche education, base-rate fallacy, snow science, risk management
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- Title: To go or not to go: Decision making at individual slope
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Hansueli Rhyner, Lukas Dürr, Hans Martin Henny
- Description: The holistic assessment and decision framework «3 × 3» is well established for ski and snowboard tours. Whereas difficult decisions can be p...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.15.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, avalanche prevention, individual slope, backcountry touring, risk assessment, education
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- Title: Are they experts? Self-assessed backcountry skills among backcountry skiers in Norway and North America
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Mannberg A., Hendrikx J., Johnson J.
- Description: We analyze how backcountry skiers’ perceived ability to manage avalanche terrain correlate with more objective measures of experience and skill...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.18.pdf
- Keywords: self-assessed skill, over-confidence, backcountry, decision-making
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- Title: Are You Sharp While Ascending?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Audun Hetland, Gerit Pfuhl, Maia Herding Solberg, Fred Inge Guttormsen, August Nordby, Martin Jensen Mækelæ, Andrea Mannberg
- Description: Objective: Avalanches pose a major threat to people negotiating avalanche terrain. The majority of the accidents occur as a result of one or several s...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.20.pdf
- Keywords: physical activity, exercise, decision-making, deliberate reasoning
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- Title: How can (serious) gaming help to trace and improve snow avalanche expertise process? An innovative methodology and application to roads risk management
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: VIDAUD Laure, TACNET Jean-Marc, PINET François, PASQUIER Xavier, ESCANDE Sébastien, DUCLOS Alain, JOUSSELME Anne-Laure
- Description: Management of mountain roads exposed to snow avalanches involves several actors local who have often to take difficult and quick decisions under socia...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.4.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, roads, risk management, crisis, decision-making, serious gaming, expertise, information quality, traceability
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- Title: Avalanche danger ratings and deaths, putting things into perspective
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Terry Eyland
- Description: Avalanche forecasters spend a lot of time to determine current and predicted avalanche danger levels, but to what extend does this danger rating have ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.4.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, avalanche danger scale, human factors, avalanche education
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- Title: Backcountry risk assessment based on terrain and snowpack characteristics
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Chris Semmel
- Description: Despite an increase in back country travels, in the past 20 years the total number of fatalities remained about constant in the Alps. This decreasing ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.2.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, trip planning, route selection
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- Title: Keeping up with Jeremy Jones: Positional preferences and risky terrain choices
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Andrea Mannberg, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: We use results from an online survey distributed in North America (N = 796), to analyze if backcountry riders’ level of contentment is affected...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.6.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, postionality, terrain
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- Title: What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: While guides in mechanized skiing operations use a well-established terrain selection process to limit their exposure to avalanche hazard and keep the...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.5.pdf
- Keywords: mixed effects model, avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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- Title: Snowmobilers terrain preferences and exposure to avalanche terrain
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Haworth, C., Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Sykes, J.
- Description: Avalanche fatality statistics since 2000 shows that an increasing number of snowmobilers are killed in avalanches in the US. This increase has been at...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.8.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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- Title: Southcentral Alaska's Crack Problem: a 2015/16 Glide Avalanche Case Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Scott Hilliard, Wendy Wagner, Timothy Glassett, Heather Thamm
- Description: Along the Seward Highway corridor in Southcentral Alaska, the winter of 2015/16 was defined by a profound and active glide avalanche cycle. Persisting...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.01.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanches, alaska, operational decision-making, message fatigue
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- Title: Managing the Physical Risk From Avalanches in a Helicopter Skiing Operation--Merging and Contrasting Gps Tracking Data with the Operational Guiding Perspective
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
- Description: In the backcountry, physical risk from avalanches is managed by 1) assessing the nature, severity and spatial distribution of the local hazard based o...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.02.pdf
- Keywords: helicopter skiing, decision-making, risk management, terrain choices, gps tracking
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- Title: Towards the Evaluation of Human Factors in Avalanche Early Warning Systems
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Martina Saettele, Michael Bruendl, Kilian Zwirglmaier
- Description: Early warning systems (EWS) play a crucial role in managing the risks posed by avalanches and other mass-movement processes to settlements and infrast...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.01.pdf
- Keywords: early warning system, human factors, reliability, decision-making
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- Title: Understanding Global Crowd Sourcing Data to Examine Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present a subset of our results from our last three seasons (2013/14 to 2015/16) of global crowd sourced data collection to examine tr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, crowd-sourcing
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- Title: What is the Risk Threshold that Backcountry Enthusiasts are Willing to Accept and How Does Their Perception Align with the Actual Risk Involved?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Terry Eyland, William Thibeault
- Description: An empirical investigation looked at backcountry enthusiasts? avalanche danger threshold and what the main factors are that alter that threshold. The ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.11.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, human factors, risk homeostasis, cost-benefit analysis, education
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